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Would Joe the Plumber be unable to perform his job if appointed as secretary of HUD? The point is that Trump is making choices not based on optimum criteria for such an appointment. He's put political value first. It isn't about the quality or viability of a good education system and well-educated children. It's about consolidating political power, his own and that of the people around him. First instance of such a thing? No, of course not, though it is unusually blatant here. But that's the irrelevancy. That banks have been robbed before doesn't mean you chip in for the bank robber's get-away taxi. He's not draining the swamp, he's making it deeper.

The NRA’s priority is a federal law that would make gun-carrying permits issued in one state valid across the country, which would make carrying a concealed firearm across the country as easy as driving your car across state lines.

Would Joe the Plumber be unable to perform his job if appointed as secretary of HUD? The point is that Trump is making choices not based on optimum criteria for such an appointment. He's put political value first. It isn't about the quality or viability of a good education system and well-educated children. It's about consolidating political power, his own and that of the people around him. First instance of such a thing? No, of course not, though it is unusually blatant here. But that's the irrelevancy. That banks have been robbed before doesn't mean you chip in for the bank robber's get-away taxi. He's not draining the swamp, he's making it deeper.

Besides you live safely in Canada so this is no concern of yours.

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Once again you are claiming knowledge of Trump's motives and intentions in his appointnments that you obviously don't have. That is a deception.

Please illuminate us on just what are the "the optimum criteria" for such appointment and how you came top have that knowledge.

Here is Justice Antonin Scalia, writing the majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the Supreme Court reversed a long-held position and ruled that the Second Amendment did give Americans an individual right to own firearms. The court said the District’s ban on handguns in private homes went too far, but that regulation of gun ownership was compatible with the Second Amendment:

It’s going to be very tempting for most of the nation to celebrate such an affirmation of states rights, but it’s also important to realize that as the Supreme Court strikes down federal powers to pass gun laws, it simultaneously places those powers in the hands of state governments, and not all state governments were smart enough to mirror the natural right to bear arms reflected in the Second Amendment.

While recognizing the Second Amendment’s intent to outlaw federal gun control is undoubtably a good thing for the nation overall, I cannot pretend to have a crystal ball to foresee what that might mean on the state level, and what that may mean in states who refuse to treat their citizens as anything other than subjects.

Trump’s Koch administration
Despite past clashes — and looming policy disputes — the Koch brothers’ operation has allies in key positions on Trump’s team.

Let's make a deal. Where you forward a response to me, I'll try to get to it in those instances where you aren't being purposefully obtuse.

I can't believe that this guy's main bitch is about about socialism for Wall Street and Trump allows him anywhere near the white house.

http://able2know.org/topic/355218-8#post-6311840

Roger Stone, the Republican strategist and campaign confidant of Donald Trump, suggested Monday without evidence that Hillary Clinton is more likely to face prosecution under the president-elect’s administration because her campaign is cooperating with Jill Stein’s recount effort.

Again offering no evidence, Stone told Steve Malzberg that “we have to presume” that the money funding the Stein campaign’s call for a recount is from billionaire donor George Soros or from Clinton, who lost the White House to Trump this month in a major upset.

“Now Hillary, I think, increases her chances of prosecution by acting this way,” Stone concluded.

Donald trump has been diagnosed by many in the field of psychology!

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I believe it is fairly obvious that it was they, not their opponents as Sykes suggests who "were in a bubble" of their own making. Now when that self-deception is clearly revealed by the elkection result,

The election result where 2 million more American citizens voted for Clinton rather than Trump? And we'll note (along with CI) that Obama's approval rating among US citizens is now greater than that of Reagan at the same point.

Remind me, which position in government does Roger Stone hold? Who cares what he says.

It’s hard to overstate just how close Trump and Stone have been over the years. Their professional and personal relationship goes back more than three decades. Trump without Stone is akin to George W. Bush without Karl Rove or Barack Obama without David Axelrod.